Box and method of making



H. V. WAGONER.

BOX AND METHOD OF MAKING.

APPLICATION FILED DEC.3I.1919.

1,356,895. Patented 0ct."26,i1'9 20.

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Specification of i ettersPatent. I Patented 0013.26, 1920.

Application filed December 31,1919; SerialNo. 348,624.

To oil? to ham it ma'yconcem Be it known that I, HENRY V. .VVAGONER,

I a citizen of the United States of: America,

residing at New York, N. Y., have invented a new and useful BoxfandMethod of Mak ing, of which the following is a specification.

box coverings, both as to the article itself and as to the methodpfmanufacture.

in the accompanylngj drawings, I have shown a preferred embodiment of myinvention, "but I wish it to be distinctly understood that a widevarietyof modifications may be resorted. to without departing from thespiritand scope of the same.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a view of the blank representing what I may term a permanentbox covering. I

Fig. 2 is a corresponding view of another blank which i may characterizea protective covering. H o

Fig. 3 is an edge view of thetwo blanks shown in Figs. 1. and 2,illustrating-their relative relation when ready for application.

tore. box. s

4 is a perspective {view of the under side of a box or box cover, thesame being constructed to embody my invention.

Fig. 5 is a side elevation diagrammatic in character, illustrative ofpart of the method resorted to in the practice of my invention.

1 represents the body of a box or box cover. In this instance,'the saidbody is made of pasteboard. f This body is provided with a permanentcovering of paper of the desired color and quality, and outside of thepermanent covering is a-protective 'covering usuallyof transparent orsemi transparent paper, which is so applied thereto as to be securelyretained thereon, or it may be easily removed therefrom without injuryto the box or the permanent covering. 2 represents the main body of apermanent covering.- 3, 4c, 5 and 6 are fiapsat the edges of said body.The flaps 3 and 5 aredesigned to cover the ends of the box body 1, whilethe fiaps l and 6 are designed 'tocover the sides thereof. The extremeedges-of the flaps are designed to'foldinside of the box body as bestseen in Fig. 4. 7 represents the main body of the protective coveringwhich is preferably made of suitable protecting material such astransparent andsemitransparent paper. 8, 9, 10 and 11 are flaps on thebody 7 which preferably correspond material.

spectively, excepting that the side flaps 9'1l need not be as long asthe flaps 4 and V 6,, the latter being preferably extended slightly attheir ends to fold. around the corners of the box body. My inventionrelates to improvements in protective covering by-hand to the finishedart cle having thereon the permanent covering. This is a slow,laborious, and. ex pensive process. By my invention much time andexpense is saved since I so construct the permanent and protectivecoverings that they are applied simultaneously. To that end, I providemeans for tacking the protective covering 7 lightly to the permanent\covering 2 whereby they may be handled as a unit and v applied to thebox a body at oneand the same time. One con- -venient method of tackingthe temporary or protective covering to the permanent covering is toprovide a plurality of notches, recesses or small holes 12, l2which maybe called openings at or near the edges of the flaps of the permanentcovering- When the glue or. adhesive is applied to the permanentcovering, a portion of said adhesive is squeezed through the openings 12onto the surface of the protective covering 7, so thataportion of saidadhesive will tack the two layers together as shown in Fig. 3, the saidadhesive acting thereafter not only as a means for attaching thecovering 2 permanently to the box body throughout substantially theentire area of surface contact, but also operating as a means toadequately fasten the protective covering to the finished article.

The adhesive material may. be applied in any well. known manner, forexample; A i

stack of alternately arranged coveringsj2v and 7 maybe moved under aroller 15 on the surface of which is applied the adhesive As the sheetsare moved under the-roller from the solid line position, indicated inFig. 5, to the dotted line position,

the adhesive is applied to the upper surface of the permanent coveringsheet 2, and simultaneously a small portion of said adhe- T sivereachesthe underlying protective cover- 1 ing sheet 7, whereby the two sheetsare tacked together so that the operator may easily remove thetwotopsheets as a unit from the stack without disturbing either ingflaps ofthe two coverings being sim iltaneously bent down around thesides and edges of the box body. By this'inethod substantially theentire surface of thepermaiient covering is caused to adhere tothe boxbody, whereas, the protective covering is caused to adhere to thefinished article only throughout a small portion of its area. Thislimited adherence-is sufficient for the pur- I poses of the protectivecovering,and yet it makes it easy to remove said protective cov-' ing ifdesired without danger of injury tothe underlying permanent covering.

As I have already indicated, I have not attempted herein to show thevarious modifications 01' which my invention "is susceptible, but havemerely shown and described it in a preferred form, it beiiig'my beliefthat I am the first to devise a method of manufacture which comprisesapplying the permanent and the protective coverings to the box bodysimultaneously and asa unit. Obviously this method may be carried on byhand or by appropriate machinery. I also believe thatthis is the firstinstance of Se curing the temporary and permanent coverings together sothat they can be handled and applied asa unit to the box. a I believethe article as thus made is also original;

1. An improvement in the art of box making which comprises placing apermanent box covering sheet against a protective boX- covering sheet,said protective sheet having a,

portion not covered by said permanent sheet, then applying a coating ofadhesive mate-v rial to the first mentioned sheet and causing some ofsaid -material to be simultaneously applied to the uncovered portiono'fsa-id protective sheet to tie said sheets together so that both maybe simultaneously applied to a box body.

2. An improvement in the art of box mal ing which comprises placing *apermanent coating of adhesive material to the first mentioned sheet andcausing some of said material to be simultaneously a'pp'lied'to theuncovered portion ofsaid'protective, sheet to itie said sheets togetherso that both may be simultaneously appliedto a box body.

3. An improvement in theart of box making which comprises placing apermanent box covering sheet against a protective be covering sheet thepermanent sheet having spacedpassagestherein adjacent to its edges When' only.

to expose corresponding, portions of said protective sheetsitherethrough, then apply-" ing a coating of adhesive material to thesurface of the first mentioned sheet and causing some of said materialto be simultaneously applied to said protective sheet through saidpassages to tie said sheets together so that both may be simultaneouslyapplied to a box body whereby the permanent sheet will be securedthereto throughout substantially its entire surface area and theprotection sheet will be securedthereto at its edges In the manufactureof'boxes o-i the "character described, theinethod applying to a box bodya covering comprising; first'placin;; two covering sheets together inroper overlying position and tacking said sheets together by a suitableadhesive at or near" their edges and simultaneously"applying saidadhesive to substantially the entire'surface of one of said sheets, thenapplying both of said sheets simultaneously to a box body to cause oneof said" sheets to be per manently secured to said body throughoutsubstant ally 1tsent1re-area of surface engagement, and to cause theother sheet to be secured tothe boX body throughout only a very smallpart of the surface of said sec 1 0nd sheet and adjacent itsedges only.7 i

5. In a bo vconstruction a box body, a permanent covering sheettherefor, a protective covering sheet, adhesive material securing thepermanent covering to the box body and also securing the protectivesheet to said box body and to the permanent sheet at and adjacent theedge of the latter, said protective sheet bei g secured to the permanentsheet, before said sheets are applied to the "box body by placing the,permanent sheet on the protective sheet a portionof the-edge of thelatter being uncovered whereby the application or" a coating of adhesiveto the permanent sheet will cause said adhesive to simultaneously beapplied to the uncovered portion of said'protective sheet to therebyhold sai'ol sheets together so that they may besimultaneously' appliedto said box bodyl T a 6. Ina 'boxconstruction, a boX body, a,coveringtherefor eon'iprising two sheets one overlying the other, theunderlying sheet having passages therein adjacent its edges,

the overlying sheet covering said passages, 1

an adhesivecoating covering substantially the entire surface area of theunderlying sheet on :the "side toward the boxbody as well'as thoserportions of saidoverlying body throughoutsubstantially its entiresurjface area while the overlying sheet is secured to said box body onlyadjacent its edges.

' sheet exposed through said passages, where *bythe underlying sheet issecured to the box

